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^TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE. 

His Excellency, Peter D. Vroom, Esq., Governor of the 
state of New- Jersey, and, ex-qfficio, president of the board, 
when present, Somerville, New- Jersey. 

James Carnahan, D. D., president of the college, and of 
the board, when the governor i.s absent. 

Samuel Miller, D. D., eldest trustee, professor of eccle- 
siastical history and church government in the Theologi- 
cal Seminary, Princeton, New-Jersey. 

George S. Woodhull, V. D. M., Princeton, New-Jersey. 

Andrew Bayard, Esq., Philadelphia. 

Asa Hillyer, D. D., Orange, New-Jersey. 

Robert Lenox, Esq., New York. 

John M'Dowell, D. D., Elizahethtown, New- Jersey. 

David Comfort, V. D. M., Kingston, New- Jersey. 

Isaac V. Brown, V. D. M., Lawrenceville, New- Jersey. 

Hon. Aaron Ogden, LL. D., Jersey City^ New- Jersey. 

Hon. Charles Ewing, LL. D., Chief Justice of the state of 
New- Jersey, Trenton. 

Hon. Samuel L. Southard, Attorney General of the state of 
New- Jersey, Trenton. 

Archibald Alexander, D. D., professor of didactic and 
polemic theology in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, 
New- Jersey. 

William Shippen, M. D., Bristol, Pennsylvania. 

Hon. Lewis Condict, M. D., Morristown, New- Jersey, 

James S. Green, Esq., Princeton, New- Jersey. 

Eli F. Cooley, V. D. M., Trentoyi, New- Jersey. 

Lucius Q,. C. Elmer, Esq., Bridgeton, New- Jersey, 

William W. Phillips, D. D., Neio York. 

John Breckinridge, V. D. M., Philadelphia. 

Joseph Campbell, V. D. M., Hacketfs- Town, New- Jersey, 

Hon. Silas Condit, Newark, New-Jersey. 



THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. 

JAMES CARNAHAN, D. D. 

PRESIDEJfT. 

JOHN MACLEAN, "A. M. 

Vice President, and Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature, 

HENRY VETHAKE, A. M. 
Professor of JVatural Philosophy and of Political Economy, 

ALBERT B. DOD, A. M. 

Professor of J\Iathemalics. 

JOHN TORREY, M. D. 

Professor of Chemistry and of JVatural History, 

SAMUEL L. HOWELL, M. D. 

Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. 

LOUIS HARGOUS, A. M. 

Professor of Modern Languages. 

JOSEPH ADDISON ALEXANDER, A. M. 
fAdjunct Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature. 

FESTUS HANKS, A. B. 

Tutor. 

JOSEPH ALDEN, A. B. 

Tutor. 

GEORGE W. LEYBURN, A. B. 

Tutor. 



Laws of thes col-legij. 

chapter i. 

OF THE OFFICERS OF COLLEGE GENERALLY. 

1. The officers of college are the president, vice-presi- 
dent, professors and tutors. 

2. They are responsible to the trustees for the full execu- 
tion of the laws of the institution, and for the suitable and 
faithful instruction of the students. 

3. They are not to engage in any pursuit or occupation 
that will interfere with a stated and punctual discharge of 
all their official duties, without the consent of the board of 
trustees. 

4. It is the duty of every officer individually, to use his 
utmost vigilance and exertions to carry into connplete effect 
every law of the college without exception. As he is clothed 
with sufficient authority to make himself and the laws re- 
Bpected, he is never to suffer any violation of a law known 
to him, to pass without its due reprehension or punishment. 

5. An exemplary regard to moral and religious duties is 
indispensable in every officer of the college. 

6. At the beginning of each session, and as much oftener 
as to the president may seem expedient, there shall be a 
meeting of the officers of college, in which shall be assigned 
to each, his part in the instruction of the college, which shall 
be registered in the book of the faculty. Provided, however, 
that nothing more shall be assigned to the president than he 
shall voluntarily accept ; and that the professors severally 
shall always have the branches of science which they profess 
included in their parts of the distribution. The frequency 
with which each class shall recite shall be determined at 
these meetings. 

7. All the officers of the college have the right to enter 



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the rooms and studies of the students at their pleasure, and 
it is their duty frequently to visit thenn. 



CHAPTER II. 

OF THE PRESIDENT. 

1. To the president is committed the general superintend- 
ence of the interests and reputation of the institution, which 
he is bound to promote and maintain by every exertion in 
his power. 

2. He has a right to be present at the recitation of any 
class in the college, as often as he may see proper, and to 
conduct or hear the recitation, if he choose. 

3. He will take such branches of instruction in the college 
into his own hands, as he may judge that the number of 
other teachers in the institution and his own convenience 
render necessary and proper. 

4. He is to see that prayers are made with the students 
morning and evening, and that public worship be celebrated 
with them on the Lord's day: And he is also to give to the 
students a course of instruction on the evidences, prhiciples 
and duties of the christian religion. 

5. He is, ex-officio, president of the faculty, when present 
with tJicm, and also the administrator of their decisions in 
cases of discipline. 

6. He is to preside at examinations and commencements, 
and to confer all degrees. 



CHAPTER III. 

OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT. 



1, The vice-president is to conduct the studies of the 
youth in those branches of literature or science of which he 
is the professor. 



2, He is to convene and preside in the faculty, in the ab- 
sence of the president. 



CHAPTER IV. 

1. The professors shall be responsible for the faithful in- 
struction of the students in those departments of science 
and literature which they shall severally profess. 

2. In the absence of the president and vice-president, the 
senior professor present shall convene and preside in the 
faculty. Seniority to be determined by the date of their 
appointment, unless the trustees may otherwise direct. 

3. The professors shall severally be responsible for the 
preservation of the apparatus and specimens belonging to 
their respective departments. 



CHAPTER V. 
OF THE TUTORS. 

1. The duty of the tutors in the instruction of the college 
id to assist the professors in teaching the Sophomore and 
Freshman classes, and to perform such other service as may 
be assigned them agreeably to chap. 1st. art. 6th. 

2. The tutors must live in the college edifice, unless pre- 
vented by sickness. 

3. To the tutors is specially committed the preservation 
of order and decorum in the college edifice. 

4. The tutors shall ordinarily visit the rooms of the stu- 
dents thrice a day, viz.: once in the study hours of the 
forenoon, once in those of the afternoon, and once after the 
ringing of the evening bell ; and they shall carefully note 
delinquent students, that they may be dealt with as the faculty 
shall determine. 

5. The tutors are to attend the meals of the students, ta 



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ask a blessing and return thanks at the dining table, and 
to see that the youth conduct themselves with propriety,, 
during the whole time that they are in the dining room. 



CHAPTER VI. 

OF THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. 

1. The faculty of the college shall consist of all persons 
concerned in the instruction and government of it, except 
such as may be specially excepted by the board of trustees. 

2. A majority of the members of the faculty shall, when 
convened after due notice, constitute a quorum. 

3. Every matter brought before the faculty shall be de- 
cided by votes; and it sliall be the privilege of the president 
of the college, when present, to vote in all cases that come 
before the faculty, and also to give a casting vote when 
otherwise there would be a tie. 

4. The faculty shall keep a book of records or minutes^- 
and appoint a clerk who shall enter therein a fair statement 
of their transactions, resolutions and determinations; whicfi 
book the clerk shall lay before the trustees, at each of their 
stated meetings — The clerk of the faculty shall be allowed a' 
compensation for his services. 

5. No act of the faculty, which is not recorded by their 
order, shall be considered as valid. 



CHAPTER VIL 

OF THE INSPECTOR, AND OF DAMAGES DONE TO THE 
COLLEGE. 

1. A person shall be appointed to inspect the college and 
see that the rooms and entries be kept in good repair, for 
which he shall receive such salary as the trustees shall from- 



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<ime to time appoint — This office may be connected with 
that of tutor or professor. 

2. The inspector shall visit all the apartments of the col- 
]eii,e once a month, to see if any waste has been made, and 
shall cause it immedi::ttely to be repaired. If the waste has 
happened in any private apartment, and by the fault of him 
or them who occupy it, and in all cases where the damage 
could not be done by a person from without the apartment, 
the inspector shall charge double for the repairs which he 
shall cause to be made, and in like manner for damages 
made in the uninhabited apartments of the college, when 
the party or parties who have OiTended can be discovered ; 
but when such discovery cannot be made, the inspector shall 
levy the expense of repairs equally on all the students, and 
it shall be paid before the end of the session in which it has 
taken place. 

3. The inspector shall keep an account of the repairs 
which have been made, and of the expenses incurred in 
consequence of them, and of the money he has received for 
damages from the students; which he shall lay before the 
trustees at every stated meeting of the board, that a regular 
settlement may be made. 

4. Every student shall pay to the treasurer such sum as 
the trustess may order, at the commencement of each ses- 
sion, to constitute a fund in advance, for such general repairs 
of the college as are not chargeable to any individual. 

5. The inspector shall constantly keep by him such ma- 
terials as are necessary for the repairs of the college. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

OF THE LIBRARIAN AND LIBRARY. 

1. Th(i faculty shall appoint a librarian, who shall execute 
;the duties of his office agreeably to the direction of the 



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faculty, in all matters which are not provided for by tho 
rules established by the trustees. 

2. Every student shall at the commencement of each 
session, pay to the treasurer one dollar for the use and in^ 
crease of the library. 

3. The librarian shall attend at the library one day in 
(he week, at noon, during the session, to give out books to 
all who have a right to apply. He shall enter the names of 
the persons in a book kept for that purpose, with the num- 
ber and condition of the volume, by which entry he shall 
compare it when returned. 

4. He shall keep another book for the purpose of record- 
ing all additions made to the library, with the date of their 
reception, and if they are presents, the name and place of 
abode of the donor ; and these books shall be immediately 
entered in the catalogue. 

5. No student or other person, except members of the 
faculty, shall be allowed to take out of the library at one 
time more than one folio, two quartos, or two octavos, or 
smaller volumes, which shall be returned before they shall 
have liberty to take out any other books. 

6. The librarian shall permit no student to keep a book 
longer than two weeks. Every person who receives a book 
from the library shall be answerable for the injury done to 
it while in his possession ; if lost, defaced or torn, he shall 
pay a sum proportionable to the damage incurred, or re- 
place it, at the discretion of the faculty. 

7. Any person, except a member of the faculty, who shall 
keep a book longer than two weeks, shall be fined twelve 
and a half cents, and at the same rate for a longer time. 

8. No person on whom a fine shall have been imposed, 
shall be allowed to take a book from the library, till the 
fine be paid. 

9. The members of the faculty may retain, in their keep- 
ing, books of science belonging to the branches which they 
teach, as long as to the librarian it shall appear that the 
general interest of the institution will permit; provided 



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that this time does not extend beyond that session of the 
college during which the hooks shall be taken out of the 
library. 

10. No person, not imnnediately connected with the col- 
lege, shall be permitted to take a book from the library, 
without depositing with the librarian the value of the whole 
set, which shall be forfeited immediately after the expiration 
of the time above specified, if the book be not returned, 

1 1. No book shall be permitted to be carried more than 
a mile from the college. 

12. If the trustees or officers of the college, on any occa- 
sion, shall desire to consult a book in the library without 
taking it from the room, it shall be the duty of the librarian 
to attend them for that purpose. 

13. No books shall be taken from the library during the 
regular vacations of the college. 



CHAPTER IX. 

OF PUNISHMENTS. 

1. The punishments of the institution, being wholly of 
the moral kind, and addressed to the sense of duty and the 
principles of honor and shame, are the following : Private 
admonition or reprehension of a student by an officer of the 
college ; admonition before the faculty of the college or 
concessions there ; formal admonition before the class of 
the offender, or in the presence of a select number of per- 
sons of any description, with acknowledgements of the fault 
and engagements of amendment; public admonition and 
reprehension in the presence of all the students, with a 
public confession and profession of penitence ; if the cir- 
cumstances of the case require it, suspension from the privi- 
leges of the college for a limited time ; putting the party on 
a state of probation, so that on the next offence he shall be 
wholly dismissed ; dismissing from the house, and ordering 



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the student to leave the college immediately, but without a 
public expulsion ; public and formal expulsion. 

2. In all the laws where the penalty is not specified, the 
selection and application of any of these punishments shah 
be by a vote of the faculty, except the first, which any otB- 
cer may apply as he shall judge necessary, and expulsion, 
which shall be subject to the regulation afterwards provided. 
The faculty, moreover, are to judge of the circumstances of 
the offence, and to consider whether they extenuate or ag- 
gravate its nature, and proportion the penalty accordingly — 
The repetition of offences shall always be considered as an 
aggravating circumstance. 

3. The punishment of expulsion shall be sanctioned by 
at least six trustees, met for that purpose, before it shall be 
finally inflicted ; but in the mean time the faculty may dis- 
miss or suspend the offending party, and exclude him from 
all connexion with the college. 

4. If any student shall refuse to remove out of the college 
on being dismissed or suspended by the faculty, the faculty 
are authorized to cause him to be immediately removed, and 
if necessary, to call in aid the civil authority ; and they are 
also authorized to cause an extract of their minutes respect- 
ing him to be published in the newspapers, and such student 
shall never afterwards be re-admitted to the college. 



CHAPTER X. 

OF ADMISSION INTO COLLEGE. 

1. No person shall be admitted into college but by a 
^yote of the faculty taken for that purpose, after his exami- 
nation. 

2. No student shall be admitted into the Freshman or 
iowest class in this college, unless he be master of Cassar's 
Commentary, (five books,) Salust, Virgil, (Eclogues and six 
books of the iEneid) Cicero's select Orations contained iu 



the volume in iisum Delphini, Mair's IntroducUon to Latin 
Syntax, the Gospels in the Greek Testament, Dalzel's 
Collectanea Gneca Minora or Jacob's Greek Reader or 
other authors equivalent in quantity, together with Latin 
and Greek Grammar including Latin Prosody — and unless, 
also, he be well acquainted with Arithmetic, English Gram- 
mar, and Geography. 

No student shall be admitted to an advanced standing 
unless he be found on examination, to be equal to the class 
for which he shall be a candidate. 

3. No person shall be admitted into this college, under 
any pretence whatsover, who may have studied at any other 
college or university, without producing a certificate from 
the president or faculty of such college or university, that 
he has left it without censure. 

4. No student shall so enter (he college as to pay less for 
entrance, tuition and room-rent, than if he had entered the 
junior class at the beginning, and no student shall be admit- 
ted into college more advanced than the beginning of the 
senior year, 

5. Every person, before he is admitted to an actual stand- 
ing in any class, shall obtain from the treasurer of the col- 
lege receipts or certifiicates, by which it shall appear that 
he has complied with the existing orders of the trustees in 
regard to expense ; which certificates or receipts he shall 
produce to that officer of the college who has at that time 
the instruction of the class into which he desires to enter ;- 
and if any officer admit a student to the recitations of his 
class, without such receipts or certificate, such oflicer shalF 
be responsible to the treasurer for the expenses of such stu- 
dent ; and this rule shall also be observed in regard to every 
student at the commencement of every new session of the 
college. 

6. If any student shall be received into college afler the 
commencement of a session and before the middle of it, he 
shall pay the tuition, room rent, library and damage money,. 



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accruing on the whole session: If admitted after the middle 
of the session, he shall pay for the half thereof 

7. To prevent all excuses arising from an ignorance of 
the laws of this institution, every student shall receive a 
printed copy of them, for vi^hich he shall pay to the treasurer 
thirty-three cents, to defray the expenses of printing. 

8, Every student shall be required to bind himself by 
promise to obey all the laws of the institution. This obli- 
gation shall be taken by the president, vice-president, or a 
professor in thefollowing manner, viz. Question to the stu- 
dent — Have you read and understood these laws .'' Answer 
— 1 have. Quest. Do you solemnly pledge your truth and 
honor to obey them? Answer — 1 do. After this the student 
shall be required to subscribe his name to the following form, 
to be kept in a book for that purpose by the faculty of the 
college, viz. — " We whose names are underwritten do de" 
clare that we have acquiesced in, and solemnly promised to 
obey the laws of this college, as they are contained in the 
pamphlet under that title." 



CHAPTER XI. 

OF STUDY. 

1. Every student shall diligently apply himself to sucb 
studies as shall be prescribed to him by his teacher, and 
shall be careful not to be absent from any recitation of his 
class. 

3. Every instructor shall appoint the time and place for 
the recitations of the class he instructs. 

3. When a student is absent from recitation, without the 
express permission of his instructor, he shall be called to an 
account for it; and if he have not a sufficient excuse to 
justify the absence, he shall be reprimanded by his instructor 
according to the nature of the offence; and if such absences 



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become frequent with a student, he shall be reported to the 
faculty, and, by their decision, be subjected to such punish- 
ment as may be deemed necessary. 

4. The hours of study shall be from the time of morning 
prayers till eight o'clock, from nine till twelve in the fore- 
noon, and from two till five in the afternoon; during which 
time every student shall keep his room, unless called from 
it to recite, or by some urgent necessity, of which he shall 
always be ready to give an account to any officer of the col- 
lege who may observe his absence. It is also required that 
the students be particularly careful to keep to their rooms 
after the ringing of the evening bell, unless obliged to leave 
them by some cause that will obviously justify their absence 
to the members of the faculty. 

5. At the close of each session of the college, every class 
shall be strictly examined on all the studies of that session, 
and at the close of each year, on the studies of that year. 
The faculty may also appoint quarterly examinations of all, 
or any of the classes, whenever they may judge it expedient. 
These examinations shall be public, so far as to admit not 
only the trustees, but all gentlemen of liberal education who 
may choose to be present, and such other persons as the 
faculty or trustees may invite. 

6. Those who shall appear to the faculty, on examination, 
to be deficient in their studies, shall be dealt with according 
to the nature and extent of the deficiency. If the deficiency 
be great, the party in whom it appears shall be put into a 
lower class : If it be such as can be remedied by dihgence, 
the faculty may allow the ensuing vacation to make it up, 
and examine the party at the beginning of the succeeding 
session. If proofs of negligence appear in any, though it 
have not been productive of gross deficiency, the faculty 
may mention before the cla^s, the names of such persons, 
and administer a reproof to them, and an exhortation to 
greater diligence in future : those, on the contrary, who 
shall appear to excel, shall be mentioned with approbation. 
And in awarding all literary honors and distinctions, a regard 

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shall be had to the moral conduct, and orderly bebaViour of 
the candidates for such distinctions. 

7. Con>petitions in the various branches of literature and 
exercises of the college may be appointed by the faculty, at 
such times, and subject to such regulations, as they may 

judge most expedient. 

8. The examination for degrees shall be on all the studies 
of the college course. 



CHAPTER XII. 

OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. 

1. For the improvement of the students in public speak- 
ing, two or more orations shall be pronounced every evening 
immediately after prayers, on the stage in the public hall : 
or at such other time and place as the faculty may direct. 
These shall be assigned to the students in rotation, so that 
all may have the benefit of this exercise ; nor shall any stu- 
dent be exempted from it, except on account of natural 
impediments or other disqualifications, of which the faculty 
or president may judge. 

2. The members of the senior class shall be excused 
from the above exercises, and in place of them shall each 
pronounce, at stated times, to be appointed by the faculty, 
an oration or declamation of their own composition, as the 
faculty shall appoint. 

3. Occasional exercises in public speaking may be assign- 
ed at the discretion of the faculty. 

4. On the day of commencement the candidates for de-' 
grees shall perform such exercises as shall be appointed 
them, and no candidate shall refuse the exercises assigned 
him, under penalty of being refused his diploma. 

5. Mothing indecent, profane or immoral, shall at any 
time be delivered on the public stage, under penalty of such 
censure as the faculty or trustees shall judge proper. And 
with a view to preserve all the public exercises of the stu- 



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dents from impropriety of any kind, every student, during 
the whole of his senior year, and previously to his com- 
mencement performances especially, shall at least two weeks, 
before the delivery show to the president the whole of what 
he proposes to speak, and shall not fail to observe such cor- 
rections as shall be made of his performances ; and if any 
student pronounce any thing in public of a censurable 
nature, in contradiction to the directions or corrections of 
the officer to whom he has shown his piece, the president 
is required to stop him on the public stage, and he shall be 
•otherwise censured as the trustees or faculty shall determine. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

OF ORDER IN THE DINING ROOM. 

1. At the signal for breakfast, dinner and supper, the 
students shall go peaceably to the door of the dining- 
room, where they shall wait five minutes, if necessary for a 
tutor. 

2. The students shall sit at the tables, according to the 
order which the faculty or tutors shall appoint, and shall 
behave themselves with decorum, carefully observing all 
the regulations which the faculty or the tutors shall make 
for their decent and proper behaviour. 

3. Any officer of college attending at the dining-tahle 
shall have full power to send out of the dining room any 
student, who shall behave in any respect indecently or im- 
properly. 

4. The students shall at all times pay respect to the 
steward of the college, and they shall not on any occasion 
infringe on the regulations which, with the approbation of 
the faculty, he may make for the good order of the servants, 
or of the dining-room and kitchen. 

5. If any wilful damage be done to the furniture, or any 
unnecessary waste of the provisions of the table be made, 



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the faculty shall require the individual, or the mess, by whom 
the damage was done, or the waste made, to pay double the 
amount, and also inflict such other censure as they may 
judge necessary. 

6. The steward shall not be obliged to provide any by- 
meal, except in case of sickness, for any student or students 
who may not attend at the regular hours of breakfast, dinner 
or supper. 

7. No student shall on any occasion leave the dining- 
table before it be regularly dismissed, except by permission 
ft-om one of the officers present. 

8. No student, who is capable of attending on the exer- 
pises of college, shall be permitted to board out of the 
house, unless it be with his parents, or with the president, 
vice-president, or professors of college. 

9. The price of board shall be settled by the trustees, as 
often as shall be judged necessary. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

OF DRESS. 

1. It is recommended to the students to be plain in their 
dress, but it is required of them always to appear neat and 
cleanly ; and if any student shall be grossly negligent in 
this respect, it shall be the duty of the college officers to 
admonish him for it, and see that he preserve a decent ap- 
pearance. 

2. Every student shall possess a black gown, which shall 
be made agreeably to a fashion which the faculty shall pre- 
scribe ; and all the students shall appear in their gowns, on 
all such occasions as shall be specified and announced to 
them by the trustees or faculty of the college. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP, AND MORAL CONDUCT. 

1. Every student shall attend worship in the college-hall, 
morning and evening, at the hours appointed, and shall be' 
have with gravity and reverence, during the whole service. 

2. Every student shall attend public worship on the Sab- 
bath, at such times and places as shall be directed, and shall 
be careful to maintain a reverential deportment. The sanc- 
tification of the whole of flie Sabbath, or Lord's day, is in- 
dispensable to every student, and all practices inconsistent 
therewith are expressly prohibited. 

3. No student shall employ any barber or hair-dresser to 
shave or dress him on the Sabbath, nor shall any such per* 
son go into college on that day, for any such purpose. 

4. Besides the public exercises of religious worship on 
the Sabbath, there shall be assigned to each class certain 
exercises for their religious instruction, suited to the age and 
standing of the pupils. These exercises shall be assigned 
by the president, and attended upon by the diflferent officers 
of college, agreeably to the arrangement which they may 
make for that purpose, and no student belonging to any class 
shall neglect them. 

5. No student shall visit on the Sabbath, nor shall any 
who live and board in college, go without the bounds of the 
college* on that day, unless by express permission of his in- 
structor. 

6. Monitors or bill-keepers shall be appointed to note 
down the absentees from the exercises of the college, as often 
as the faculty or any particular instructor of a class may 
think proper. 

7. No student shall possess or exhibit any indecent picture, 
nor purchase or read in college any lascivious, impious, or 
irreligious books, and if any student shall he convicted 

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thereof, or of lying, profaiieness, drunkennes, theft, unclean- 
liess, playing at unlawful games, (such as cards, dice, and 
back-ganfimon,) or other gross immoralities, or impieties, he 
shall be punished according to the nature and heinousness of 
the offence, by admonition, public reprehension, disnfiission 
or expulsion from college. 

8. If any student shall quarrel with, insult, or abuse a 
fellow-student, or any person whatever, he shall, upon con- 
viction, be punished according to the nature of his fault and 
as the faculty may determine. 

9. Any student convicted of sending or receiving a chal- 
lenge to fight a duel, or who shall carry such challenge, or be 
a second in a duel, or in any wise aid or abet it, shall imme- 
diately be dismissed by the faculty, and as soon as practica- 
ble expelled by the trustees. 

10. No student shall bring, or cause to be brought, into 
college, or on any occasion keep in his room, any spirituous 
or fermented liquors, without urgent necessity ; nor without 
an express permission from the teacher of the class to w^hich 
he belongs. 

11. No student shall go to a tavern, eating-house, beer- 
house, or any place of such kind, for any purpose whatso- 
ever, without permission from some member of the faculty ; 
and the purpose for which any student shall desire to go to 
any of these places shall be by him specified to the officer 
of the college from whom he shall ask permission; and the 
permission obtained shall be considered as granted for that 
purpose only: nor shall the time of continuance at such 
places be greater than that for which permission shall have 
been given. 

12. No student shall, on any occasion, keep company 
with persons of publicly bad character under penalty of 
admonition, and if the practice be continued, of dismission 
or expulsion. 

13. It is required of all students to treat all persons with 
whom they have intercourse, with decency, modesty and re- 
spect, but especially to exhibit the most respectful deport- 



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ment to the officers of the college; and if any student shall 
disobey any of the lawful commands of teachers, or shall, 
either in speech or action, manifest disrespect towards any 
of them, he shall be admonished, ask the forgiveness of the 
offended party, or be suspended, according to the nature of 
his offence and the decision of the faculty. 

14. If any student shall refuse to appear personally before 
the president, or any officer of the college, when required 
so to do, he shall be punished for contempt of authority. 

15. Immediate and implicit obedience shall be yielded 
by every student to the lawful commands of every officer of 
the institution, under penalty of punishment for contempt 
of authority. 

16. Any student who may be required so to do, shall 
open the door of his room or study to any officer of the col- 
lege; and if he refuse, the officer may break it open, and 
the expense of repairing it shall be defrayed hy the student, 
who shall also be punished for disobedience. 

17. If any students remain in the college, or in the town, 
during the vacation, they shall be subject to all the laws re- 
specting decent and orderly conduct, and shall be under the 
control of the officers of the college who may remain there 
during the vacation. 



CHAPTER XV. 

OF RESIDENT GRADUATES. 

1. Resident graduates shall have the free and full use o^ 
the college library, by paying one dollar per session for the 
same; subject however, to all the laws relative to the 
library, as contained in chapter 10. 

2. They may attend the recitations of any class in the 
college ; and may, if they choose and are called to it by the 
teacher of the class, recite with a class, on any particular 
branch of study. 



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3. They may diet in the refectory, at the same price, ancf 
subject to the same rules, as the under graduates. 

4. They may receive instruction, direction, or assistance, 
privately, from any officer of the college who may be wil- 
ling to give it— for which they shall make such compensa- 
tion as shall be agreed on between them and such officer. 

5. They shall not visit the rooms of the students in study 
hours, nor after the ringing of the evening bell, without ex- 
press permission from some of the faculty. 

6. They shall be expected to treat all the officers and in- 
stitutions of the college with respect, and to encourage dili- 
gence, order and obedience, among the students. 

7. If any resident graduate shall be judged by the faculty 
to act in a manner injurious to the college, he shall be so in- 
formed by a note ; and shall thenceforward cease to possess 
the privileges assured to him by these laws. 

8. Graduates intending to reside for improvement at the 
college, shall signify to the faculty distinctly that such is their 
intention ; and also that they will hold themselves bound to 
conform to all the provisions of the statutes contained in this 
chapter. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS. 

1. No shouting, loud talking, whistling, jumping, dancing,- 
or any other boisterous noise, shall be permitted in the en- 
tries or rooms of the college at any time, under such penalty 
as the nature of the offence shall be judged by the faculty to 
deserve. 

2. No student shall be allowed to disguise himself by- 
wearing women's apparel, or in any other way whatever, 
under penalty of such censure as the faculty may see cause 
to inflict. 

3. No student shall be allowed to disturb, or attempt any 



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iRiposition on his fellow-students, in any manner whatever; 
and every student shall be requirejj^ to preserve order and 
decorum in his own room, and shall be responsible for all 
disorder therein, unless he give information, when in his 
power, of the person or persons from whom it proceeded. •• 

4. No student, after the examination for degrees, shall 
leave college before the day of commencement, without 
express permission from the authority of the college. 

5. If any clubs or combinations of the students shall at 
any time take place, either for resisting the authority of the 
college, interfering in its government, or for concealing or 
executing any evil or disorderly design, every student 
concerned in such combination shall be considered as guilty 
of the offence which was intended : and the faculty are em- 
powered and directed to bieak up all such combinations as 
soon as discovered, and to inflict a severer punishment on 
each individual than if the offence intended had been com- 
mitted in his individual capacity, whatever be the number 
concerned, or whatever be the consequence to the college. 

6. No meeting of the students of the college shall be called 
without the permission of the president or in his absence of the 
next senior oiBcer; and no meeting of a class shall be called 
without the permission of the instructor of the class — and 
in both cases the request shall be in writing specifying 
the object of the meeting; and signed by the persons 
making the request; who shall be responsible for the ^ood 
order and doings of the class, or of all the classes, at such 
meeting. 

7. As it may sometimes happen, that a student may 
become an unworthy, corrupting, and dangerous member of 
the institution, and yet it may not be practicable to establish 
his criminality by formal and specified proof: it shall, in such 
cases, be the duty of the faculty, first to warn and admonish 
the party thus circumstanced, and if reformation do not take 
place, then unless the urgency of the case shall forbid the 
measure, the parent or guardian of the party shall be written to 
and requested to remove him, and if he shall not be removed 

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without unnecessary delay, it shall be the duty of the faculty 
to remove him, in such filanner as they shall judge that equity 
and the good of the institution require. 

8. No student suspended, dismissed or expelled. from col- 
lege shall be permitted to enter the edifice, or come on the 
college grounds without express permission from the presi- 
dent ; nor shall the other students of the college be permitted 
to visit or keep company with a suspended, dismissed or ex- 
pelled student, without the president's permission. 

9. No servant shall be employed in the college, except 
such as shall be engaged by the steward, at a stipulated 
salary, with the concurrence of the faculty; the duties of 
the servants within the college shall be pointed out solely by 
the faculty. And if any servant shall be found to violate any 
of the laws of the institution, or to neglect any of his ap- 
pointed duties, he shall be immediately dismissed. 

10. No woman shall be permitted on any pretence to go 
into the college except on days of public speaking; and 
excepting also strangers who wish to see the college, or 
citizens of the neighborhood, accompanied by an officer of 
the college, or some person appointed by him. 

11. No student shall keep for his use or pleasure any 
horse or riding beast; nor shall any student keep a dog 
or gun, or fire-arms and ammunition of any kind, nor 
any sword, dirk, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon 

.whatever, 

12. If any student or students, shall steal, destroy, or 
tresspass on the property of any person in the town or 
elsewhere, the authority of the college shall inflict an 
exemplary punishment on him or them; and any combina- 
tion to prevent the execution of the civil laws shall be 
severely punished. 

13. No student shall hire any horse or carriage from any 
person whatever, for the purpose of amusement, exercise, or 
business, without explicit permission from some officer of 



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the college. Nor shall a student, without such permissioD, 
go to a greater distance than two miles from the college, at 
any time whatever, during the continuance of the session. 

J 4. The students are subject to all the laws of the col- 
lege, after the classes to which they belong are dismissed at 
the close of each session, till they take their departure from 
the town : And if any student after his class is dismissed 
shall go to a tavern without permission, or receive any en- 
tertainment, or do any act whatsoever prohibited by the 
laws of the college, he shall be considered as committing the 
same offence and incurring the same penalty, as if he had 
done the same act before the dismission of his class. 

15. Whereas cases may arise not expressly provided for, 
the faculty are fully authorised to adopt such additional re- 
gulations, not inconsistent with the preceding laws, as in 
their opinion are necessary for the good order of the institu- 
tion: and these regulations, when announced, shall be as 
promptly obeyed as the printed laws. 

16. In every certificate of dismission from college, the 
reasons of dismission shall be specified, and the student's 
standing as a scholar particularly mentioned. 

17. A student dismissed from college, for whatever cause, 
shall have refunded to him the whole which he has advanced 
for board, from the time of his dismission. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 

The annual commencement of the college is on the last 
Wednesday of September. 

The fall vacation begins the day after commencement^ 
and expires in six weeks. 

The spring vacation begins on the first Thursday after 
the second Tuesday in April, and expires in five weeks. 

The studies of the college are the following, viz. : — 

Roman and Grecian Antiquities; The Theory of Num- 
bers ; Algebra ; Geometry ; Plane and Spherical Trigono- 
metry; Surveying; Navigation; Conick Sections; Analytical 
and Descriptive Geometry; Differential and Integral Cal. 
cuius ; Mechanics ; Natural Philosophy ; Chemistry ; Natu- 
ral History ; Astronomy ; Political Economy ; Rhetoric 
and Belles Lettres j History and Chronology ; The Greek 
and Latin Classics by all the classes ; Moral Philosophy ; 
Logic ; Composition ; and the Holy Scriptures. 

The college course of study is completed in four years. 

The classes are denominated Freshman, Sophomore, Ju- 
nior, and Senior. 



CERTIFICATE OF ADMISSION. 

I certify that was 

regularly admitted a member of the College of New-Jersey, 
on the day of one thousand 

eight hundred and 

Clerk of the Faculty. 



INDEX. 

List of the Trustees, _ - . - 5 

List of the Faculty, - - - - 6 

Of the Officers of the College generally, - 7 

Of the President, - - - - - 8 

Of the Vice-President, - - - ib. 

Of the Professors, - r - - 9 

Of the Tutors, - - - - ib. 

Of the Faculty of College, - - - IQ 

Of the Inspector, and of Damages done to the College, ib. 

Of the Libcarian and Library, - - - 11 

Of Punishments, - - - - 13 

Of Admission into College, - - - 14 

Of Study, ..... 16 

Of PubUc Speaking, - - - - 18 

Of Order in the Dining Room, - - 19 

Of Dress, - - - - - - 2Q 

Of Religious Worship and Moral Conduct, - 21 

Of Resident graduates, - - - - 23 

Miscellaneous Regulations, - - - 24 

Advertisements, - - - - - 28 

Certificate of Admission, - - . ib. 



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